Saunders Business Beat!
Check out your monthly recaps covering all the exciting news from you, our Saunders community, and upcoming events. Students, alums, faculty, and staff can share their news with your Saunders community by emailing us at communications@saunders.rit.edu.
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Accomplishments from Saunders Students
- Maggie Dempsey ‘22 (MIS), ‘24 (MBA), and Alena Pischuk ‘23 (MBA) have been selected as the undergraduate and graduate delegates to represent Saunders’ students at this year’s convocation and commencement ceremonies.
- Students in the Saunders Cyber: Risk and Resilience course have released a new edition of “The Sketchy Cybersecurity Newsletter” in collaboration with Rick Mislan, Ph.D., and Leigh Rubin detailing the seasonal prevalence of romance scams.
See these and past months' accomplishments online.
Saunders Faculty and Staff Go Above and Beyond
- Mike Palanski, Ph.D., professor of management, hosted an interactive session with the Greater Rochester Chamber
about the benefits of leaders prioritizing themselves as human beings for efficient leadership development.
- Edwin N. Torres, Ph.D., professor of hospitality and service innovation, published the textbook “Customer Service Marketing: Managing the Customer Experience,
” which provides an overview of customer service principles and discusses theories about consumer behavior and loyalty in organizational settings.
- Rick Lagiewski, Ph.D., principal lecturer of management, and Malar Hirudayaraj, Ph.D., associate professor of management, have received professional development grants from the Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Career Development
at RIT.
- Clyde Eirikur Hull, Ph.D., professor of management, co-edited “Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship,
” which chronicles digital entrepreneurship research.
- dt ogilvie, Ph.D., professor of management, was featured on “A Guest at the Table” column on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
- Bill Dresnack, JD, assistant professor of accounting, has published the paper “Building a Stronger Pipeline: Stacking Pre-CPA Accounting Licenses on the Way to CPA” in CPA Journal.
- Gijs Overgoor, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing, has received a $26,000 Amazon Research Award
for his proposal on using video summarization to generate effective, short video ads.
See these and past months' accomplishments online.
Alumni News and Recognitions
- Gary Cottingman ‘90 (MBA) has opened his own marketing agency, Cottingham Marketing LLC,
after a 10-year tenure in a corporate marketing position at Publix Super Markets, Inc.
See these and past months' accomplishments online.
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Upcoming Events
- 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 23
Dine with the Dean - 3rd & 4th Year Students
- 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 23
2022-2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Awards
- 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 23
MBA & Graduate Chat: Meet Students and Alumni
- 7:30 a.m. on Friday, March 24
IIA Meeting
- 9 a.m. on Monday, March 27
Accepted Graduate Student Open House
- 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28
Business Analytics Competition Submission Deadline
- 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 29
Meet with Venture Capitalist, Deeny DeLeo
- 5 p.m. on Friday, March 31
Undergraduate Hospitality & Tourism Management Accepted Student Event
- 5:45 p.m on Tuesday, March 31
Saunders College Beta Gamma Sigma Induction Ceremony and Reception
See these and upcoming events online.
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